Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] sort of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm all that sort of leads me back to where I started from , our perception of this survey is that it 's encouraging in the sense that it suggests that the recovery in the economy is erm widening and deepening if you like , it 's widening in the sense that it 's spreading to all the mainland regions of the U K and it 's deepening in the sense that erm firstly , although there are regional variations within this , it 's clearly not purely an export story and it 's not purely a domestic story , it 's a mixture of the two which gives us some reassurance erm it 's also deepening in the sense that there 's no evidence from the survey of anything which is likely to trip up the recovery in the short term , and remember that most of these er questions relate to the next four months , not all of them , but mo most of them relate to the next four months so one does n't want to extrapolate too far forward but nevertheless if you look at erm er most obviously sort of the the crisis and the inflation questions , if you look at er |
| 2 | How many pennies per gram , I would prefer that too , so just sort of choose one way and stick to it , I always do it that way , and then you 're not confusing yourself doing it different ways . |
| 3 | only just sort of see them occasionally to get the inside stories to . |
| 4 | and er , and as a result , you know , institutes , the wages in government bodies tend to be quite high , and because gov government bodies represent such a large proportion of er , non- agricultural employment they , they represent a much more sort of , a much more potent influence than they would do in a , in a developed country where the government sector is much , much smaller . |
| 5 | shades they were made in Finland they were the paper pleated ones , er , most of them , no , no not most of them , a lot of them fitted er close up onto the ceiling where they 're intended for centre lights and were held up onto the ceiling with a little spring , erm , they also did some quite nice pleated paper shades , er at a time when you find that most electrical shops were , would have er the old type of erm what is it , imitation silk shades with fringes round them , er fringe at the top and fringe at the bottom and so on sort of thing , when the , when those was sort of old of age everywhere , it was just the same as it 'd been before the war , er it was , you know , quite right really to see these all in different colours , completely plain , but pleated shades but in just one particular colour each shade . |
| 6 | Erm , now what that means is , if you ca n't answer the question and you 've only got a few lines down then sort of trying t w blur it a little bit and make it waffly so that there 's something we can point to and say that you 've written something , right ? |
| 7 | and if you were having a boy they used to say you would carry the baby all round sort of thing |
| 8 | I only actually sort of drink want a coffee or something ? |
| 9 | So you have n't seen grandma presumably just sort of spoke to her ? |
| 10 | Well , just somewhere sort of , I mean it does n't really matter . |
| 11 | But as I say , in the Sugar House so we I mean , we 've ju we , all we did was , was we the mass the big central area we just literally sort of lino type floor and carpeted round the edges |
| 12 | What would that be , not just sort of Play School songs , it would be anything would it ? . |
| 13 | So you can look at that , not just sort of little symbols er not really meaning much but we 're going to look at what happens to the current . |
| 14 | Though it would be a case of finding someone else to go off with and not just sort of like , I mean we mentioned it years ago . |
| 15 | me down cos they said they only wan , they wanted full-time and not , you know , not just sort of Saturday or part-time . |
| 16 | They are a I mean , quite honestly these courses are these things erm they 're not gon na do them you know , they 're not just sort of fairy things you 've got quite a bit of erm thinking to do and and so on and they 're pretty exhausting ! |
| 17 | But if , if if this is the strategy which is being adopted in broadly it is being adopted I mean I 'm , I 'm not just sort of arguing just for the sake of arguing , it is |
| 18 | Well he just totally sort of because I think he knows |
| 19 | I looked at it and it was just like sort of , light brown and I thought oh that 's not too bad ! |
| 20 | Just like sort of , I 've got it wrong again ! |
| 21 | So and she was , she was moaning away like sort of oh we alright ! |
| 22 | But you see China was different compared to erm places like Russia and wherever and so you ca n't just strictly sort of use the Marxist model and apply it to China and what the Com |
| 23 | Oh he 's not really sort of speaking to me . |
| 24 | I think the peasants may not immediately sort of , I mean they wou they would have sort of linked together |
| 25 | Er you probably do n't do it erm you know er so brazenly probably the back of your mind but again key staff , you are key staff er yeah if you actually prepare somebody to take over your job when you 're not there sort of thing . |
| 26 | You see I mean I can see the goal there every day , I can see , I can see me sort of getting to the goal , I just maybe sort of go around it , I mean well a bit I mean , since I 've had these two I sort of said , you know , would it , would it be the white handle , let me show you , you know the gold handle and , you know |
| 27 | I do n't know , I 'm not very sort of convinced one way nor the other |
| 28 | Yes , I mean it 's , it 's a nice report , but it 's erm , it 's not very sort of forceful or vigorous , is it ? |
| 29 | ‘ It 's not that sort of do . |
| 30 | I was always Because I started later i was always very sort of worried in case I would n't you know , get the thing right . |